00:00:00.000Lawmakers got a closed door briefing during which intelligence officials told them Iran still retains thousands of missiles and one way attack drones capable of threatening American allied forces in the region.
00:00:09.480That echoes CNN's reporting from earlier this month that roughly half of Iran's missile launchers were still intact.
00:00:15.460This is something that we knew going in.
00:00:18.380It is very, very difficult in an air campaign to completely destroy the military capacity of an adversary,0.75
00:00:24.760particularly one like Iran, that had thousands of missiles, thousands of launchers, and a whole bunch of drones.0.76
00:00:30.240You can significantly degrade it, but if your adversary isn't trying to take over anything,0.94
00:00:35.840they're just trying to maintain the ability to inflict pain, then that's a much lower bar for them to jump over.0.95
00:00:42.240And we all knew going into this that Iran would maintain that capability.0.82
00:00:46.640And the president just sort of hoped that the regime would somehow collapse.
00:00:50.860But again, as John Bolton said, it's simply become more hard line.
00:00:55.280So, yes, it's a huge problem in terms of being able to force Iran to do any of the things that we would like them to do on nuclear weapons, on support for terrorist groups, on their ballistic missile program.
00:01:06.900Breaking news to bring you now. This is from the IEA chief, the International Energy Agency chief, Fatih Birol, saying that Europe has maybe six weeks or so of jet fuel left, warning of possible flight cancellations soon.
00:01:22.760This is being reported by the AP News Agency saying these comments coming to us from Paris.
00:01:28.160So Fatih Birol, the International Energy Agency chief, saying that Europe has maybe six or so weeks of jet fuel left,
00:01:35.920warning of possible flight cancellations soon.
00:01:38.600We've, of course, heard similar warnings from the boss of Europe's biggest airline, Ryanair, in previous weeks as well,
00:01:46.140talking about potential disruption through the course of the early summer.
00:01:50.040Well, as we approach mid-April, that would align with about June, according to these
00:01:55.820warnings from Fatih Birol, the IAE chief, saying that Europe has six weeks or so of
00:02:02.000jet fuel left, warning of possible flight cancellation soon.
00:02:04.700Iran's foreign minister has announced the Strait of Hormuz is open, that Iran has his
00:02:10.160own blockade there in place for several weeks since the start of that war.
00:02:14.260But because the Israel-Lebanon conflict is now in a ceasefire, Iran has said they will reopen the strait.
00:02:22.420That had been one of their conditions made public 10 days or so ago in order to do just that.
00:02:28.760Now, there's a lot of open questions still.
00:02:31.540What does that mean for the U.S. Navy's blockade?
00:02:33.800We presume it will also lift, but the U.S. officials have not said that yet.
00:02:38.220President Trump celebrating it on Truth Social just now.
00:02:42.700the markets also rallying for more. I mean, it's a huge development. This has been Iran's key source
00:02:49.200of leverage in this conflict. And as you mentioned, it also could mean that the U.S. Navy blockade
00:02:54.120would end. And certainly the tone of President Trump's true social suggested that it possibly
00:02:59.520is going to end. But it also comes at a time as President Trump has been signaling that
00:03:03.940negotiations are going in a positive direction. He has said yesterday that he doesn't believe
00:03:08.940that this ceasefire needs to be extended.
00:05:41.720I thought Marco Rubio would be the better negotiator.
00:05:44.160He probably wouldn't have been had it been a real negotiation.0.99
00:05:46.840But I think Trump was setting up the Iranians.0.97
00:05:49.660I think he was setting them up for failure, sending J.D. over there, the next number two in charge in America, maybe in the world, knowing that he was going to walk out of there without a deal.0.83
00:05:59.760I think that's why they walked so quickly.0.97
00:06:01.560They put terms on the table that were either going to be massive wins for the United States or, better yet, if it didn't work out, the next option would be get out of there where the Iranians don't take the deal.0.99
00:06:11.580Get out of there quick before they change their mind.0.93
00:06:13.740And then you slap in this blockade, and oh my goodness, Stephen, and by the way, the Navy, badass.
00:06:20.960If you haven't heard those audios of the Navy seamen talking to ships that are trying to transverse the Strait of Hormuz,
00:06:28.380the full force of the United States Navy will stop you.
00:06:33.600It's bone chilling how serious they are.
00:06:36.700Here's where I think the reality of Scott Besson, when Scott mentioned it,
00:06:41.860I think in a talk he gave, I think CNBC picked it up, it was about 10 days ago when he mentioned that we needed an implement for economic warfare and that would be the blockade.
00:06:53.460This was already in process, right, because it's quite complicated to be able to pull it together, but it was a forcing function.0.93
00:07:01.100Remember, the guys in Islamabad don't count.
00:07:03.680The guys in really Tehran don't count.0.67
00:07:06.360They're intermediaries for the Chinese Communist Party.0.94
00:07:09.260This was a major FU to the CCP to say, hey, we're going to block and turn around all these gray ships.0.85
00:07:17.480And remember, some of this gray fleet was being refueled in, was being loaded up in our great ally in UAE, right?0.95
00:07:26.320So it was to basically shut the whole thing down, then do the deal with Indonesia,
00:07:30.580said we could shut down the Straits of Malacca also, which shows the CCP that, hey,
00:07:35.720President Trump can put the vice grip on anybody.
00:07:38.280So it worked out. But look, it's day by day, moment by moment.
00:07:42.100They're saying one thing right now that, hey, it's going to open.
00:07:44.540But the reason they need to open is that they have no cash.
00:07:48.120And if we've actually frozen the assets coming out of Dubai, our great ally there, and we've locked in and Scott stopped it from other places, these guys have no cash whatsoever.
00:08:00.060So I just hope that we haven't been too easy and easing up here because the CCP is finally paying attention and telling these guys.
00:08:09.600Now, how do you read this as because right now they're also President Trump just put out, if we can put that up, Eric, on the nuclear part of this.
00:08:18.120There was a rumor coming out that Axios reported on this morning that they required $20 billion from us to get the nuclear dust.
00:08:24.340Of course, President Trump's not going to pay for anything.
00:08:26.120I think he just said that, that they're going to have a nuclear discussion about this, about the pixie dust left over from the total obliteration raid back in June, but that it's coming to us for free.
00:08:38.640What's your sense of this entire transaction right now?
00:08:43.140My sense is there's a there's a really you mentioned it.
00:08:46.760I'm not sure we understand the implications of it, but but the world does.
00:08:50.560and certainly Trump does, the deal to blockade wasn't a deal to like, okay, we'll open the
00:08:56.000Strait of Hormuz and we'll figure out the other stuff and make money or blah, blah,
00:08:59.440blah, or we won't obliterate your civilization opening.
00:09:02.280The blockade kept money out of the coffers of certainly Iran, but it also kept oil out0.83
00:09:09.000of the- China's blowing through their stockpile.
00:09:12.540They had a billion to- they're just blowing through it day by day.
00:10:56.740We're not going to give you a penny for that.0.99
00:10:58.000And, by the way, you're not going to be able to enrich uranium even to not weapons grade but to electricity producing grade anymore if you don't want to.
00:11:05.180If you want to give them, you know, a humanitarian, throw them a humanitarian bone, let them.
00:11:10.220As we've talked a lot about, particularly 19, the golden years for the Trump economy when they were hitting on all cylinders, full-spectrum energy dominance is the predicate for the Trump economy.
00:11:24.300He wants oil with a four-handle in front of it.
00:16:52.700And you went for. Exactly. But I did get to I did get to the real Navy.
00:16:58.220Sean, give me your assessment of the glory of the surface Navy and, of course, naval air in doing this blockade.
00:17:06.540It looked like President Trump has used the double leverage against the Chinese Chinese Communist Party in the Revolutionary Guard to break these guys, sir.
00:17:14.840At least the least preliminary analysis is, sir.
00:17:18.200Well, you said two things that are critical there. Right. The first is let me take them backwards.
00:17:22.180I think that people need to appreciate what a game of chess this was.
00:17:47.540And that leads me to the second point that you've touched on,
00:17:49.640which is for decades, if not generations to come, what just happened, the level of precision,
00:17:55.760the level of coordination, the level of jointness that has existed in Operation Epic Fury from the
00:18:00.960initial launch of it to this blockade will be studied, not just at the Naval War College in
00:18:07.220Newport and the postgraduate school in Montgomery, but will be studied worldwide. Because what this
00:18:14.260was, was a level of brilliance and sophistication that I don't think that people fully appreciated.
00:18:19.220we had or that we could execute on. And like I said, I think for generations, this will now
00:18:24.380become a classroom exercise in how to execute. It also shows, as we have these debates in
00:18:31.380Congress, is that no power on earth has got the strategic bombing capability, the tactical
00:18:38.040bombing capability, the ability to send in troops, if necessary, special forces, but also
00:18:43.480a Navy that can just lock things down, whether that's in the Gulf of Oman, the Straits of
00:18:49.080Malacca, the Taiwan Straits, the Gulf of America around the Panama Canal and the in the Greenland,
00:18:54.420Iceland, UK gap. It's a global navy with all the great traditions from the Royal Navy we took over
00:19:00.180from. But you add that to the air power we have and the in the amazing troops and special forces.
00:19:06.800Russia ain't got it. China ain't got it. Russia and China combined ain't got it. Do they, Sean?
00:19:11.860No. And here's the one thing that I know it's sometimes a catchphrase. The hardware is one
00:19:18.540thing right so the ships and the plane the personnel behind them are what makes that work
00:19:22.980so the the people that are executing the plans the ship drivers uh the bomb droppers the pilots
00:19:29.880we have the best military personnel in the world and and i know rightly so we argue that we need
00:19:37.160better ships newer ships better planes newer planes newer armament uh munitions etc but it is
00:19:43.420the might the thought the strategic planning the strategic minds behind the execution of these
00:19:49.640plans i i still be i was in awe of of midnight hammer right and then what we would down and
00:19:56.240exactly did in maduro but epic fury steve to your point like the level of coordination that number
00:20:03.000of ships the coordination with the air force the a-10s that went in the extraction of that back
00:20:08.840cedar like it's just it is you are one in all moment after the next and the thing is what what
00:20:18.340what i i'm so glad that you're bringing this up because to be honest with you i think as fewer
00:20:23.900and fewer people serve in the military and get close enough to it there's a level of like oh
00:20:27.900well they can just do this or you know that's like the expectation the bar is so high this is this
00:20:33.860We need to sell the capability of our military and make sure the American people never take for granted the amazing men and women that are part of our military, part of our armed forces, part of our joint force.0.97
00:20:45.320And people should understand these Persians are tough.0.96
00:20:47.800Look, it's still a long way to go to get to the resolution of this.0.99
00:20:50.660But when they shifted the center of gravity of the battle to the Persian Gulf after the hit on the oil and gas field of Qatar in Iran, and they shifted it, and particularly Hormuz, these are tough hombres who are very smart and very dug in.
00:21:05.340That ability to, like, at halftime in a football game or to call an audible and to totally shift the strategy right then to go to a naval strategy shows you the ability to adapt, adapt resilience and adaptability.
00:21:18.600And that comes not that the equipment doesn't do that. That's training. And you heard Cain yesterday. There's seven to 18 year old kids right on the engine or on the bridge there on the bridge and a 21 or 22 year old incidental lieutenant JG.
00:21:36.780And by the way, just one quick thing that's fascinating is like, I love the fact, not I didn't love the fact, but when all of the pundits said, you know, no one took into consideration the strait and that Iran control.
00:23:20.740You can't land at our bases, which is great.
00:23:22.960thank you for nothing we'll remember that thank you for your attention this matter
00:23:27.500yeah and hang on i had you on here this is fantastic this is synchronicity just happening
00:23:33.640but you were coming on because sean on your show yesterday i think it was you got the scoop
00:23:38.800of the of the year so far let me play that let me play the clip and i want to bring you in for
00:23:43.140something that is going to rock the political world let's play it i have been told by reliable
00:23:49.320sources that that decision is done and that the minority is slow walking the dissent so that
00:23:55.040states can't uh and and and states do not have time to redistrict ahead of it but i have been
00:24:02.020told very reliably that the minority is slow walking that dissent all right wait hold on a
00:24:06.300second because i don't think i've read that anywhere that is news that is real news let's
00:24:12.360put that map up sean what are you talking about about the supreme court and this thing that's
00:24:16.660going to rock the political world, hopefully today. So as you remember, several months back,
00:24:21.240the court heard this Louisiana case on the Voting Rights Act. And by anyone's account,
00:24:28.040who's a court watcher, the court was very clearly in favor of the Louisiana case that they couldn't
00:24:34.780redistrict. They couldn't use the Voting Rights Act, that they're about to throw out that additional
00:24:39.140section that's part of it for preclearance and otherwise. So no one thought this was going to
00:24:45.420be a problem, right? It's either 6-3 or 5-4, but I don't think there's anybody that's watched
00:24:50.280that doesn't think it. The question that I started probing around and asking is why? Why are we not
00:24:54.860getting this decision? And here we are today, another day when we expect decisions and nothing.
00:24:59.360And the answer I got back from a very reliable source was the minority on the court is slow
00:25:04.880walking their dissent. Why does that matter? Well, until they put the dissent out there,
00:25:08.880the court can't issue the opinion. Why does that matter? Because as time ticks away,
00:25:13.840states are then limited in their ability to potentially redistrict that will cost republicans
00:25:20.260the opportunity to pick up seats so right now sure maybe louisiana picks up one seat but states like
00:25:25.620alabama and others when i've confirmed this with several folks in the key states especially southern
00:25:31.060states that abide by the voting rights act they're basically telling me i'm sorry the clock has run
00:25:35.540out we don't have the time to do it for this cycle yes we'll get it done for 2030 or 2028
00:25:40.920But not in time for this midterm. This court is no knows what they're doing. The liberals on the court are intentionally slow walking the dissent so that it will not be issued in time for many Republican states to actually go in and redistrict based on the decision.
00:25:58.300do you have any idea from your your reporting of checking of what is like the hard because
00:26:06.820there'll be enormous pressure obviously what's the hard out desantis is calling a special session
00:26:12.440of the because he's had a belly full of it he's calling a special session of the florida
00:26:16.740legislature i think for the last for the 28th of uh of um of april on tuesday and we have a huge
00:26:24.500event on on sunday that mo's going to be on we're already sold up we're expanding the number of
00:26:29.540tickets for the great thank you to the grassroots virginia's on tuesday florida's coming later what
00:26:34.640is the update sean that you know that if the supreme court does it the southern states can
00:26:39.560still do this because i think you're talking eight or nine seats aren't you yes yeah well florida might
00:26:44.420still be able to pull it off they've got a bigger problem with their state senate in coordination
00:26:48.000with desantis but louisiana will probably pick up one seat i think alabama's probably missed the boat0.99
00:26:53.520for this cycle. And you start to go through, I think that might be it, Steve. I mean, Louisiana
00:26:58.300will jam through their one. And then in my conversations with other states that would
00:27:03.460have the potential to use this ruling to redistrict, I don't know that another state
00:27:08.720that I've talked to is telling me that they will have, you know, it's possible. But right now,
00:27:14.860many are telling me that it's too late based on their legislative calendar. And that's the key
00:27:18.920thing if the court runs the clock out and many of these legislatures go out of session they're
00:27:24.000screwed and the court the minority the liberals on the court know exactly what they're doing
00:27:28.120captain spicer where do people get all your content your shows your podcast you're writing
00:27:34.200all of it well right now you can go to sean spicer.com i got a brand new book out called
00:27:38.320trump 2.0 the forwards written by president trump and endorsed by a gentleman by the name of stephen
00:27:43.540k bannon right on the back but i'm excited because president trump right this so go to amazon right
00:27:47.820now and order trump 2.0 uh and then obviously you can watch the dc huddle every day we'd love
00:27:53.840to get you on steve but the dc huddle i'ma you know go go to go follow us uh that's where you
00:27:59.040heard that i'd love from i'd love doing the show it's a massive scoop the book's amazing we're
00:28:04.320gonna hump the book in the next segment captain spicer let's go back to work thank you sir
00:28:09.120sean spicer wow what a scoop got a lot of work doing state legislation got to get focused
00:30:30.780the usa will get all nuclear dust created by our great b2 bombers no money will exchange hands in
00:30:41.320any way shape or form this deal is in no way subject to lebanon either but the usa will
00:30:49.400separately work with lebanon and deal with the hezbollah situation in an appropriate manner
00:30:55.840Israel will not be bombing Lebanon any longer they are prohibited from doing so
00:31:03.440by the United States of America enough is enough
00:31:08.380America's greatest ally just got put on a report let me repeat that and Tel Aviv Levin
00:31:17.940and you entire and Benji Shapiro the entire Israel first crowd the commander-in-chief of
00:31:24.320the United States military had to go on a social media platform to tell the world that we're not
00:31:32.080playing games anymore with America's greatest ally. This deal is, and I'm quoting the commander
00:31:39.520in chief, this deal is in no way subject to Lebanon either, but the USA will separately
00:31:44.800work with Lebanon and deal with the Hezbollah situation in an appropriate manner. Israel will
00:31:51.660not be bombing Lebanon any longer. They are prohibited from doing so by the United States
00:31:58.380of America. Enough is enough. I don't know what could be more humiliating, because in this entire
00:32:04.980war, the instigators of additional action that have dragged us in deeper and deeper and deeper0.60
00:32:11.380has been Bibi Netanyahu and America's greatest ally. This is finally President Trump putting a
00:32:18.120stop to it in front of the world ordering them because they've done it behind the scenes before0.99
00:32:23.720and guess what israel didn't pay attention they're going to do what they're going to do0.91
00:32:27.100well you ain't going to do it any longer you're going to do it you're going to do it on your own
00:32:29.960nickel and you're going to do it at your own risk this could be if properly um executed by the united
00:32:39.940states military and the united states government could be a landmark moment and of course tel aviv
00:32:45.060Levin and Benji Shapiro and all their acolytes and Miriam Adelson and everybody they're all up in
00:32:50.340arms are all gonna be over President Trump he had to go out enough is enough take your number two
00:32:57.920pencil out and underline that enough is enough our magnificent military 18 year old 19 21 year old
00:33:07.220kids, men and women, Hispanic, African-American, Asian-Americans, whites, have delivered this,
00:33:19.100and it's time to stop the games. The Middle East is a sideshow, and Israel is a sideshow to a0.94
00:33:26.300sideshow, and it's time to stop the carnival. Finish this and do it like the American military1.00
00:33:32.280just did it. He gave you a tool, what Scott Besson's been talking about, ultimate economic
00:33:37.300warfare. You shut him down. Now let's make sure everybody gets to the table. Let's get this whole
00:33:43.300thing sorted. Let's not be writing big checks. Let's get our money out of here. I think President
00:33:48.120Trump finally had a belly full of this. President Trump, as I say, when he says no more games,
00:33:54.200no games so he just put bb on notice no games gotta tell you couldn't be more humiliating
00:34:03.180everybody on the israel first project all your pom-poms nothing could be more humiliating than
00:34:10.360what the commander-in-chief was forced to do on his social media platform so all the world saw it
00:34:17.420at the same time he told you because they've said it behind the scenes and trying to be
00:34:22.300nice about it trying to be accommodating and you just won't listen whether it's bombing where it's
00:34:27.880a whole nonsense about how that we started this whole thing or about bombing tehran that night
00:34:34.060the oil facilities or about expanding the war into the persian gulf and allowed the persians
00:34:39.600do asymmetric warfare to shift the center of gravity of battle after you attacked those gas
00:34:46.000fields against a standing order by the commander in chief so now he's got to go globally and put
00:34:51.380it out to America's greatest ally. And Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz and that entire cabal
00:34:59.120in D.C. should be put on notice. We're not doing this anymore. You're not going to jeopardize
00:35:05.480the national security interests of our nation, and you're certainly not going to put
00:35:10.140our young men and women in harm's way, and that's exactly what you guys allowed to happen.
00:35:16.720And Lindsey Graham should pay for that.0.96
00:35:18.800If the good folks in South Carolina really look at the facts here, Lindsey Graham will be turfed out.
00:35:26.900Mo, we just had great news from Sean Spicer, although it looks like the liberals on the court are slow walking a decision so we can get past the date that the southern states can redo.
00:35:35.740And I got to tell the southern states right now, you should be sitting there going, hey, we don't care if we have to call a special session and come back on a weekend.
00:35:45.560It's only human agency that holds you back once this comes out.
00:35:49.720I don't care if they put it out the last day of June when they leave.
00:35:53.540You should call the special session for July 4th.
00:35:57.340Special session in the southern states should be July 4th in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of this nation by patriots.
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00:45:56.620Mo, one more time, where do people go?
00:46:00.580You go to warroomvarally.eventbrite.com.
00:46:06.160once again that's war room varally all one word dot eventbrite.com and if you tried to get a
00:46:13.700ticket last night and it said sold out please go back to that website we have opened up more
00:46:17.840tickets so please go back and register and once again it'll be this sunday the 19th of april from
00:46:23.6804 p.m to 7 p.m uh we sold out but we're expanding it expanding capacity and um want everybody there
00:46:33.500Mo, thank you so much. I may tap, get you back here in the second hour. So thank you, man.
00:46:37.400Appreciate you. Well, one last thing. This is about the grassroots. Like you said,
00:46:41.880the grassroots is the backbone of this movement. So this is to honor and thank you guys. So we
00:46:46.400want everyone to attend. Thanks, kid. Appreciate that. Very good. Israel and Lebanon agree to
00:46:53.480truth, says Trump. It's raining. Now we've got many more updates today. And let me just repeat
00:46:59.300on true social. I'll put that up later when Fanel and Thayer come up. Enough is enough. He has to
00:47:07.060tell America's greatest ally. Enough is enough. I don't remember FDR having to say that
00:47:13.660to the Russians or to the Brits. And there was a lot of disagreement internally. But that's
00:47:22.240alliance is as tough as that alliance was and as demonic as stalin was but the russian people
00:47:29.680stepped up for i don't know 65 million casualties roughly heroically to destroy the fascists in the0.70
00:47:37.280chinese lao baijing another 35 million over there and shank you know um shankai-shek general
00:47:46.000stillwell can tell you didn't listen all the time double dealt us a couple of three times
00:47:50.160but not as bad as having to be humiliated on the world states that's what tel aviv events suck on0.69
00:47:57.040this benji suck on this this is a humiliation enough is enough enough is enough coming from0.67
00:48:07.000donald john trump commander in chief of the united states military0.79
00:48:12.600rosemary jenks there's all kind of running around and i i want to go to
00:48:19.760is that the h1b we want to start there you know the vice president's up there on that stage the
00:48:25.720night i don't know if he doesn't understand the math or he's just giving misinformation
00:48:29.040but let's talk about h1bs we have a crisis in this country the crisis in this country0.93
00:48:36.400is we let too many foreign workers in here to steal the jobs of american citizens and this is1.00
00:48:43.520why young people are sitting there going between ai and foreign workers what is my future0.95
00:48:49.200that i or my brother or my cousin they're over in right now in the gulf of oman or i'm going
00:48:56.780or i've been there and i've come back what's the upside for me america first and american citizens
00:49:04.740above that american citizens first they get the best deal it's not that you have to be a supplicant
00:49:10.640what is all this arguing about oh the foreign workers it's got to stop american citizens
00:49:17.360are paramount to everyone everyone they must get the best deal on everything
00:49:25.280and now you get elon musk out there oh we're gonna have a universal basic income but now
00:49:30.740it's gonna be a high maintenance income okay you're gonna be an indentured servant because
00:49:34.960you're gonna let ai and the robots take over they're not gonna happen man we're fighting this
00:49:39.520every day and all these new measures of the oligarchs that try to slip it into a must-pass
00:49:44.100bill that has to end and johnson in the house you're nothing but prostitutes for these people0.88
00:49:50.880you're paid you're paid hookers thank god you got the senate on this one there's at least
00:49:56.380standing tall guys like schmidt and holly and others it's got to stop you can't be bought and0.68
00:50:04.180paid for and johnson we know you're running around and we know what you're going to do and we're
00:50:08.640going to defeat you again and humiliate you again but you're one of these guys the more you humiliate0.76
00:50:13.200you the more you like it rosemary jenks this h1b visas this number came out in cato and cato is the
00:50:20.400worst they want open borders any number they put out you got checked 50 times tell me about this
00:50:25.440thing with h1b visas ma'am yeah that's the problem steve the lesson here is don't ever trust cato for
00:50:31.980anything at least regarding immigration i don't know what else they do but on immigration they
00:50:36.260are always wrong. So they put out a paper that purports to say that H-1B visas are down because
00:50:46.580of the $100,000 Trump fee. Well, that is not accurate because the Trump fee only applies to
00:50:54.980new H-1B visa holders coming here from abroad. That is the authority that the president has.
00:51:01.620He can restrict the entry of aliens, but he cannot restrict what happens once foreign workers are here.0.76
00:51:10.120So what's basically happening is that, yes, the number of new foreign H-1Bs coming into the United States is down because of the $100,000 fee.0.65
00:51:21.020But the number of foreign workers or foreign students in the United States who are applying for H-1Bs is filling the gap.
00:51:30.500So there is no overall reduction in the number of H-1B visas being issued.